toffy
adjEtymology From toff + -y.
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Australia, New Zealand, UK, Derogatory Posh, upper-class; snooty.
- As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him.2007, Craig Sherborne, Muck, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
- Rather it lurks in the now-republished photos of Mr Osborne in the Fauntleroy outfit of the Bullingdon club, a toffy Oxford society of which he was a member at the same time as Mr Rothschild (and of which David Cameron, the Tory leader, is also an alumnus).2008 October 23, “The king of Corfu”, in The Economist:
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- She heaves an exasperated sigh that would do a shop assistant in a toffy dress emporium proud.2012, Paddy O'Reilly, The Fine Color of Rust, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 44:
- Related terms
- toffee-nosed